the new girl at daycare has a bag that says, "ITA LOVES YOU"

Can I sue? That sounds like slander, or something.

Slashdot weighs in on the Miers nomination:

"Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

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Huh. I remember that. I used the MS DOS 6.0 compression feature because I figured, "Hey, it's Microsoft - they make DOS. It must be good."

It was my first experience with shitty MS software.

eta: I suppose I should add that since she was working for MS, there's nothing wrong with her doing her job to the best of her ability.

You might love her - she was a very cute little girl. But yeah, sue away. I get a finder's fee.

I might love her, Aimée, but what about all the people her bag is telling that I love them? I'm way too crusty for that.

Some of my sister's Kenya pics. Featuring moi.

Those are great, ita. My only problem with the last one is that apparently in For Better or For Worse (the comic strip) they used "roadside" as fake slang to mean a slut, which got picked up by this comic blog, so the caption made me laugh. Actually, I guess that's not a problem after all.

The sofa idea seems like quite the commitment to a limited number of variations.

There's also you KNOW people would be sneaking in there to take naps and drooling on the cushions in their sleep. Ick.

OK how fucking cute is ita.

But to give us someone we know nothing about who has NO constitutional experience on the recommendation that "she's my good friend"? This is the nation's institution! This is the third branch of our government that is be staffed by only nine people! I am fucking OUTRAGED that we have to go through such a farce of hearings on her.

SO MUCH AGREEMENT.

I mean, we've got politicians, rather than statesmen, in the executive and legislative. To put politicians, or friends of politicians, in the judicial is just offensive. It demeans the institution and weakens the nation.

I so hope that all members of Congress say, "That's nice, Mr. President. Now can we have a real nominee? You can give her a nice judicial appointment in a lower court, like Clinton did with his friends."

You really don't like wet socks. heh. Nice pics.

Kirk and Spock share an intimate moment: [link]

You know, I could really use a photo of Darth Vader strangling Elmo right about now

"But, Elmo intercepted no transmissions..."

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edit because sometimes I can spell